1908 The Hoffman House Bartender's Guide by Charles S Mahoney

INTRODUCTION

This is the fourth edition of this popular work, and it is safe to say that no guide ever before pub lished has met with the success which has marked this publication from the date of its initial appear ance. It contains more within its covers than any volume of the kind on the market, and so great has been the demand for it that three editions have been exhausted within a remarkably short space of time. What has done more than perhaps anything else to stimulate the mixing of modern drinks by Amer ican bartenders has been the offer of the Police Gazette to give annual medals to the three members of the craft who send in the best recipe during the year. This competition has been carried on for the past seven years, during which time thousands of recipes for drinks, new as well as old, have been sent to the Gazette office and printed in the columns of that paper. Ihe contest is a'.ways open and any bartender or saloon man is qualified to compete by simply sending his recipe in. Every week the Gazette prints from a half to a column of these recipes, so the up-to-date man can keep posted on what other men in the trade are doing. ^ An attempt has been made to make this book one of the most comprehensive ever published, and that it has been successful a glance between the covers will show. As a guide for the bartender and saloon- man nothing could be more complete, as it contains

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